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<blockquote data-quote="wykydron" data-source="post: 91700"><p>On a personal level, nothing to do with IRB, i do believe it would be better to the pre match psych up in the sheds. first of all the atmospere is just your OWN team, no matter where you are from or who you are playing for these other people in the room are the ones you have to answer to. Not the fans, not the opposition and certainly not paper pushers. At the root of it all the people in that room are the ones you want fired up when you go out on that field. Then when you run on the feild the intensity rises higher as the crowd joins in and finally you are reminded that you are playing for your country, the ultimate honor. My parents tell me that the haka is calling forth ancestors spirits to help you in battle (mums mother and father were maori)... this to me sounds like the thing to do with your teamates in a situation that empowers them as well as yourself. Despite the fact it is an awesome spectacle to see i can't help but feel it being commercialised in the manner it has been in the past was tolerable, now wanting to dilute it within the national anthems is wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wykydron, post: 91700"] On a personal level, nothing to do with IRB, i do believe it would be better to the pre match psych up in the sheds. first of all the atmospere is just your OWN team, no matter where you are from or who you are playing for these other people in the room are the ones you have to answer to. Not the fans, not the opposition and certainly not paper pushers. At the root of it all the people in that room are the ones you want fired up when you go out on that field. Then when you run on the feild the intensity rises higher as the crowd joins in and finally you are reminded that you are playing for your country, the ultimate honor. My parents tell me that the haka is calling forth ancestors spirits to help you in battle (mums mother and father were maori)... this to me sounds like the thing to do with your teamates in a situation that empowers them as well as yourself. Despite the fact it is an awesome spectacle to see i can't help but feel it being commercialised in the manner it has been in the past was tolerable, now wanting to dilute it within the national anthems is wrong. [/QUOTE]
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